“It’s now inevitable no one can beat the Warriors,” beat writer Mark Medina told Logan Murdock as they opened this week’s episode of WarriorsHQ after a breezy 116-108 win against the Minnesota Timberwolves. “If anyone was going to get their shots in, it was going to be earlier in the season.”

Murdock countered with the observation that the Warriors’ victory against the Timberwolves was “one of their worse games” of the season and pointed to Coach Steve Kerr’s unhappiness with the team’s execution against Minnesota, before conceding: “This team is too good right now.”

Reviewing Draymond Green’s performance in his first game back after missing 13 of the past 15 games, Medina called Green’s gameplay against the Timberwolves the most impressive on the team, despite his post-game stats not reflecting that. Murdock then defined Green’s buzzer-beating, first-half alley-oop pass to Klay Thompson to secure three points as the play of the game.

Medina moved to give context to Green’s return with talk of his wish to win Defensive Player of the Year for a second time.

“I think if you put truth serum into him, he would admit: He wasn’t playing the kind of defense last season that deserved being on the NBA Defensive First Team,” Medina said before reminding listeners that Coach Steve Kerr expressed anticipation more for Green’s potential conditioning restrictions than any minutes restrictions ahead of his return from injury recovery. “It’s not surprising that Draymond is playing like this.

“He came out as if he was playing yesterday. He did not miss a beat whatsoever.”

Paralleling Green’s story of the last two seasons to Andre Iguodala’s — who missed the Dec. 11 game against the Timberwolves for right hip tightness — Murdock defined the broader narrative for both as a struggle to “stay on the floor, and trying to sustain that … to maximize their talents.”